[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pick \pick\ pi^k, v. t. imp.  p. p. picked pi^kt; p.
   pr.  vb. n. picking. oe. picken, pikken, to prick, peck;
   akin to icel. pikka, sw. picka, dan. pikke, d. pikken, g.
   picken, f. piquer, w. pigo. cf. peck, v., pike, pitch
   to throw.
   1. to throw; to pitch. obs.
      1913 webster

            as high as i could pick my lance.     --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with
      anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument;
      to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
      1913 webster

   3. to separate or open by means of a sharp point or points;
      as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
      1913 webster

   4. to open a lock as by a wire.
      1913 webster

   5. to pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to
      pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the
      stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.
      1913 webster

   6. to remove something from with a pointed instrument, with
      the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to
      pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.
      1913 webster

            did you pick master slender's purse?  --shak.
      1913 webster

            he picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems
            with an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. --cowper.
      1913 webster

   7. to choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable;
      to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; --
      often with out. "one man picked out of ten thousand."
      --shak.
      1913 webster

   8. to take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to
      collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often
      with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up
      information.
      1913 webster

   9. to trim. obs. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   to pick at, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance.

   to pick a bone with. see under bone.

   to pick a thank, to curry favor. obs. --robynson more's
      utopia.

   to pick off.
      a to pluck; to remove by picking.
      b to shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters
          pick off the enemy.

   to pick out.
      a to mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark
          stuff with lines or spots of bright colors.
      b to select from a number or quantity.

   to pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence
      colloq., to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail.

   to pick a quarrel, to give occasion of quarrel
      intentionally.

   to pick up.
      a to take up, as with the fingers.
      b to get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there;
          as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news.
          1913 webster
see also:
picked picking peck pike pitch to pick at 
to pick a bone with bone to pick a thank to pick off to pick out 
to pick to pieces to pick a quarrel to pick up 

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